Coolermaster Haf X EATX - Love it, but I want a blue and black scheme for my tower, and the 230 x30 mm fan(unless someone can tell me where to find one), well I can't find another fan that fits that size. The look isn't the greatest, but other than that I love this case.

Antec Twelve Hundred 1200 V3 - This case is Awesome, but I have issues with the removal of the hard drive bays and cleaning the fan screens. Removing all those screws just looks like a pain. The look I think is sexy, but I am not sure if there is a place to put an optical drive lol and if that is the "case" then I have to cross it off right now.

Azza Hurrican 2000 - I have mix feelings about this case, I have no Idea how I feel about it design, but it has the blue look I require, plus the easy swapping Hard drive bays. I do like a better window on my case though.

Here is my question, Which do you think is best tower in your opinion? Or is there a different tower that I am missing all together? Any help here guys would be great, honestly I have researched so much about different cases I am tired of it, and I want to see what other people think.

Motherboard
What I am looking for:
-Design
-Reliability
-Features

I am having a hard time deciding which motherboard to get. I have two that really catch my eye

ASUS Maximus IV Extreme - Now I love this board. The look I am not to sure cause I am going with a black and blue theme for my rig. The board it self is amazing though. I have also and currently use an Asus mobo and I find them to be very reliable.

MSI Big BANG-MARSHAL - This is the other mobo I have been looking at, and god damn I love it, the look the features. The thing I take issue with, I am not sure if I need 8!!!!! pci slots I am going to be running sli but Having so many seems like major overkill for me. Plus I haven't owned MSI board since my first build which was ages ago and I don't know how reliable they are.

Question, which of these two do you prefer? Or again Am I missing something completely and I should be looking at another 1155 mobo

Graphics Card/GTX 580Which is the best one! LOL I can't figure these damn things out. I read reviews I look at features and it just makes my head spin with all the different companies and different variations of the video cards.

I pretty sure I have nailed it down to the MSI Lightning.

Now the questions. What is your favorite 580, is a warranty the most important thing? like EVGAs life time warranty? Or is the clock speed? or how much Ram it has. @[email protected] just makes my head spin.

RAMI have a budget about 150max I am willing to spend on RAM, I am looking for 8gigs but willing to go down to 6gigs and expand later.

What is the best RAM I can get? I was looking at the Cosair Dominator, but in all honesty I don't know anything about RAM or specs, so I am completely shooting in the dark, and just going by what little info and reviews for each product they have out there.

For you memory buy what you need now, expend don't always work good as I experience latelly, and your 1155 will need 4, 8, or 16 GB a multiple of 3 like the 6 gb is for triple channels board, unless you are planning to use mixes size of ram capacity

For you memory buy what you need now, expend don't always work good as I experience latelly, and your 1155 will need 4, 8, or 16 GB a multiple of 3 like the 6 gb is for triple channels board, unless you are planning to use mixes size of ram capacity

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if i recall evga remapped its warranty to 10 years over lifetime. not sure if this is on all cards but either way i would still buy from them other then MSI. clock speeds will vary given the max oc for each model will vary, just aim for the best cooling solution imo and the best warranty if your spending that much on a gpu. for ram 8 gigs dd3 1600 cl8 you can get for under 100 easily which is plenty fine, you wont notice a difference in ram even if you went up to the 2k+ barrier. gskill/corsiar seem to be top 2 for that.

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The evga warranty is based off of different part numbers. I pulled the following from their site.

Products purchased ON or AFTER November 1, 2006 MUST be registered within 30 days of the ORIGINAL DATE OF PURCHASE to receive EVGA's Free Extended Warranty. All products not registered within 30 days will ONLY receive a 1 year limited warranty. Refer to the following suffix guide to identify the length of your warranty:

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